On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:17:12PM +0200, Cristian Greco wrote: > i'm a new co-maintainer of this package. Bug reopened.
As already explained I disagree with this. > My proposal is to avoid dropping this behaviour from hostname. We could rather > provide these aliases through update-alternatives with priority lower than > those installed by nis. > > If no one complain about this solution (co-maints, Michael?) I'm going to fix > this in the git repo. I don't think I agree. Hostname is required and thus installed anyway, why do you think it makes sense to add a different 'domainname' binary? From a short look into the sourcecode there's but one function call missing in hostname. So I'd prefer asking the nis maintainers to drop their domainname binary in favour of hostname. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo/Skype: michaelmeskes, Jabber: mes...@jabber.org Go VfL Borussia! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
